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We’re at the point where we’re building roads on top of roads. Real good use of money. Another great use of money is building another Arena that can’t do much more than the old Arena and renovating the Citrus Bowl when nobody wants to use it anyway.

I call the audit a Gloss Over of wrong doings. No facts for the Citizens to check out, it only went to Sept 30, wasn’t that 2006?
We need an independent audit, not one done by the county comtroller.
Where are the contracts and how do we access them?
I tried and couldn’t pull them up, are they secret?
I don’t think the audit was a true audit and we need someone who is not involved in government or who does not receive government contracts, to do the audits.

It has been known for a long time that Snyder was incompetent in this position, and his rabbi was Keen.
Keen wanted him as Director because he knew that Snyder would not trespass into Keen’s activities, which are being questioned as the auditors and state investigators dig further into the no-bid contracts, the lack of professional accounting for contracts, unsupervised bill paying and a plethora of other incompetence.
The Authority is a blight on this community with it being the largest local toll authority in the State, collecting more tolls per mile than most other states let alone local authorities.
Now it is known why.
Waste and patronage.

The whole problem is when the legislature sets up a quasi government agency like the xpressway auth. They do not answer to the public. it’s a way to skirt local and state rules and tax payers. The you give the local leaders the power to select and appoint board members who end up being golf buddies and campaign contributers.
Florida needs to abolish this ptractice and give the road building back to the DOT so the tolls go into state coffers to retire debt an dbuild more roads. Then they can sell the nice brand new HQ building and recoup some funds.

No wonder they are itching for a toll increase; they mismanage so much money that what they collect isn’t enough.
I don’t think they are crooks, but are careless with other people’s money, i.e. the taxpayer. I also think they had gotten so cozy with the contractors that a lot of back scratching was going on.
The funniest thing I’ve seen is when the Citrus Bowl parade had an Xpress way float and all the big-wigs didn’t want to get anywhere near it, so the float went by empty.

THERE ARE OTHER CONSULTANTS THE EXPRESS AUTHORITY USES, can they be tied to any elected official?
I heard that one, such consultant got over $280 thousand a year and they didn’t have a contract, was that amount highlighted?
The audit should have posted the Names of the Organization, the Date of the Contract and the yearly amount and the duties of the contractor.
I didn’t see any of this, did the Orlando Sentinel see any facts on the contracts?
Maybe we need to ask Miss Haynie a lot of questions.
We the People, sure need the answers.